Publications
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Local economies and pandemics
(2023)
The outbreak of the global COVID-19 pandemic has presented unprecedented challenges to both developed and less developed local economies. The aim of the book is to uncover the best practises in responding to a pandemic ...
Education and climate change
(2025)
This scholarly book explores education’s vital yet underemphasised role in addressing climate change, positioning it as both a powerful tool for climate action and a sector directly impacted by environmental challenges.Challenging ...
Integrated Transboundary Water-Climate Management Tools
(2020)
The scholarly theme of the book lends itself to the discipline of earth and atmospheric sciences, with a specific focus on water-climate studies. The book is a scholarly discourse by researchers in the natural sciences, ...
Finding a moral compass for South Africa
(2023)
The research question of this book reads: Can South Africans, amidst all the contemporary distrust in political leadership and moral decay, find a moral compass that could lead them to a humane society of mutual trust, ...
A youth empowerment model designed to tackle school violence in South Africa
(2024)
School-based violence is of major concern in the South African schooling system, particularly in secondary schools. School-based violence has a negative impact on the physical, social, cognitive and emotional well-being ...
Problem-based learning and pedagogies of play
(2023)
The focus of this book is original research regarding the implementation of problem-based learning and pedagogies of play as active approaches to foster self-directed learning. With the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) ...
The Belgic Confession
(2023)
This book investigates the contemporary relevance of the Belgic Confession. The book groups the 37 articles of the Belgic Confession together in order to cover the whole confession in 12 chapters (alongside an introductory ...
Facing homelessness
(2021)
In facing homelessness we face the other, and in facing the other, we face ourselves. This book contributes to an emerging body of knowledge on street homelessness in the South African context. It is meant for researchers ...
Factors impacting African women’s doctoral success
(2023)
With the knowledge economy playing such a critical role in global economic development, increasing the number of Doctor of Philosophy degree (PhD) graduates in higher education institutions worldwide has been imperative. ...
Corporate governance practices promoting the sustainability of small, medium and microenterprises in South Africa
(2024)
Corporate governance practices promoting the sustainability of small, medium and microenterprises in South Africa critically examines the intersection of corporate governance and the sustainability of small enterprises. ...
Collaborative capacity development to complement stroke rehabilitation in Africa
(2020)
This scholarly book focuses on stroke in Africa. Stroke is a leading cause of disability among adults of all ages, contributing significantly to health care costs related to long term implications, particularly if ...
Financial inclusion
(2021)
Financial inclusion has been noted as a key driver of poverty alleviation and growth. Yet, most of the scholarly work that exists lacks a comprehensive discussion of how the poor interact with financial services and the ...
Living Water
(2023)
Water will undoubtedly become an ever more crucial locus of academic reflection, as Christiana Peppard’s concern that “wars of the future will be fought over water, not oil” (2014) stresses. Increasing water shortages ...
Cities, Space and Power
(2020)
The scholarly purpose of this manuscript is to provide a resource for academics and researchers looking into cities, space and power in emerging economies. It also takes into consideration the relationship between emerging ...
Re-Authoring Life Narratives After Trauma
(2019)
Re-authoring Life Narratives after Trauma is an interdisciplinary, specialist resource for traumatic stress researchers, practitioners and frontline workers who focus their research and work on communities from diverse ...
Philipp Melanchthon
(2022)
Philipp Melanchthon (1497–1560) was, with Martin Luther, the most influential reformer of the church during the 16th century. He was also a reformer of university education, especially theological studies, as well as the ...
A God Who Cares?
(2024)
This monograph may be read as a constructive supplement to Volume 4 of the series entitled An Earthed Faith: Telling the Story amid the “Anthropocene.” Volume 4 of this series is on the Christian doctrine of providence and ...
Accounting theories, practices, education and human capital formation trends
(2025)
This book aims to provide empirical and conceptual insights into contemporary accounting theories, practices, education and approaches adopted to advance human capital formation in the discipline. Although new accounting ...
The 4IR and teacher education in South Africa:
(2022)
The 4IR has become an overarching framework within which education systems, including teacher education, are operating. Contingent upon the ideology of neo-liberalism, the 4IR seeks to transform societies in ways which ...
Christian ethics and political economy
(2020)
The value-free and relativistic human and scientific discourses have led to an era of ideology. From fascism at the dawn of the century, through liberalism and the associated phenomenon of unfettered statism, to the current ...